Improvement in machines for planing shingles



J. FLINT; MACHINE FOR PLANING SHINGLES.

Patented. June 13 lII!I'llIIIIIIIIIIIIIII/I/I/I N PETER5. PHOTO-LITHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTON. D. C v

" the rod G to catch the next shingle.

UNIT D STATES PATENT QFFIGE.

JOSEPH FLINT, OF RooHEsTER, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT lN MACHINES FOR PLANING SHINGLES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 178,753, dated June 13, 1876; application filed May 6, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JosEPH FLINT, of Rochester, Monroe county, New York, have invented a Shingle-Planer, of which the following is a specification The object of my improvement is to plane sawed shingles smooth, thus allowing the water to run off free, makingthem last much longer than common sawed shingles.

My improvement consists of a cam, B, which raisesthe table as the shingle passes through the feed-rollers and under the cylinder-cutters, giving it a gradual taper until the shingle passes through, when the cam B allows the bed to drop to receive another shingle. O is a friction-roller, fastened on the under side of the bed-plate to save friction. G G is a sliderod. I is a socket or hearing to hold the sliderod to its place. E is a clutch or hook fastened to the slide-rod, projecting through the table to catch and push the shingle under the feed-rollers. F is a standard or lever, that runs down and is fastened to the frameandum der side of the table, which pulls the rod G- forward to push the shingle under the feed H is a spiral spring, that forces back L is the joint that the bed-plate works in. K is a guard rollers.

or plate to prevent the shingles passing under the rollers one on top of another, and gives a chance to have a number of shingles on the table at once, keeping the planer conly as described, of the vibrating table, the friction-roller G, and the revolving'cam B, the latter constructed and arranged to give a direct vibrating motion to the said table, substantially as described.

2. The combination of the latch E, springrod G, and compound lever F, for the purpose of carrying the shingles forward to the feedrollers, substantially as described.

JOSEPH FLINT.

Witnesses:-

ALBERT H. LoEEs, GEORGE M. PEoPLEs. 

